sábado, 26 de abril de 2008

THE VIRTUAL BEATLES "WITH A LITTLE HELP..."

The Album is here, for you to download and enjoy! These recordings are a tribute to the Beatles Reunion occured in 1994, when Jeff Lynne produced the finishing of two Lennon demos with the surviving Beatles. We chose some demos by John, Paul & George (of those songs we thought had good quality of sound and composition) and tried to capture the sound that Lynne would have given to them if a COMPLETE reunion album had been made. We did it respectful and carefully. We don't have a profesional studio, or full time or knowledge to make it sound as an official recording, but we did our best. Some demos are not quite good as Free As A Bird, or Now And Then, where the vocals are at front and clear, but we managed as well. Hope you like it! and thanks for writing and waiting for this material!

Well Done, You've done justice to the recordings.However you should have used a higher bitrate than 128k mp3. (320k would have been better). The tracks are suffering from mp3 compression and not showing your work in the best light.

Thanks for finishing the album guys! One question though. I am using a Mac and unable to open the .rar files from rapidshare. Is there a way you can post the tracks as mp3s directly into your blog rather than thru rapidshare?

New "Now and Then" rumors: Will Paul and Ringo finish it as tribute to Neil?

# Update (5/8/08) From Edward Fields:

Hi Steve!

All this "Now and Then" talk got me wanting to hear that "iamaphoney" version again. (It really is quite good!) Well, while trolling for that version on YouTube, I came upon an alternate version by a couple of guys from Argentina. It's pretty good in its own right. They went a step further and created a "lost" Beatles album by "completing" demo tracks like "Now and Then," "Grow Old With Me," "Help Me to Help Myself" and "You'll Know What to Do." It's a fun listen.

Some of these were very good Anthology-esque outfakes, particularly via the faux Jeff Lynne production and Ringo-esque drumming. Definitely worth a listen for fun.

You can download the audio for all tracks (along with CD covers) at: http://www.virtualbeatles.blogspot.com/ Thanks again for keeping the best Beatles site on the planet running! I don't know what I'd do without it! Cheers! Eddie

Thank you, gentlemen! What a labor of love you've done. Your wonderful version of Paul's Goodbye demo got me thinking... I don't believe anyone has ever done a cover album of all the songs that the Beatles wrote for other artists, such as Badfinger and Peter and Gordon, etc., as Paul wrote Goodbye for Mary Hopkin. have you ever thought of doing such an album? Thank you again for this marvelous treat.

Very nice really enjoyed it, I would like to have a 320 bitrate as well. 128 is adequate but this great work deserves to be heard at the best quality. One day in the future if its possible to update the download with 320 quality please do, thanks for these and all the work you did on them.

As a very long standing Beatles fan (I actually saw them in 1964 at the Southend Odeon cinema) I think your stuff is great. I've been able to listen/watch on YouTube but Rapishare gives such a poor service nowadays, is there any chance you could host the downloads on another server - Magaupload?

I really enjoy the tunes you've completed here, though I really think the album should be called "Fair Ground", which Paul recently said was the Beatles' term for the unique sound you get when two guitars aren't quite in tune with each other. The term could also be easily applied to the sound resulting from the limitations you're working with on this project!

And hey hey! Next up, you oughtta take a whack at the many Monkees tracks out there with full instrumental backing but no vocals (tho it seems that most of the original lyrics are lost to time).